# Yau Ma Tei
## English
### Alternative forms

* Yaumatei, Yaumati, Yau Ma Ti

### Etymology

From Cantonese 油麻地／油蔴地 (jau$^4$ maa$^4$ dei$^{6-2}$).

### Pronunciation

* (Hong Kong) IPA: /jaʊ mɑː teɪ/

### Proper noun

Yau Ma Tei
* An area in Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
** [1910 November, “Hongkong's Typhoon Shelter”, in The Far Eastern Review‎, volume VII, number 6, →OCLC, page 216, column 1:The contract has been let for the construction of a breakwater to provide a harbor of refuge for Hongkong’s shipping. This breakwater will extend 3 300 feet from a point near the Asiatic Petroleum Co.’s tanks at Tai-Kok-Tsui to a point opposite the Yau-ma-tei police station with an opening at one end of 400 feet.]
** 1971, D. J. Dwyer, “Introduction”, in D. J. Dwyer, editor, Asian Urbanization: A Hong Kong Casebook [亞洲都市化:概况香港個案研究]‎, Hong Kong University Press, →OCLC, pages 2-3:For Sheung Wan and Wanchai census districts on Hong Kong Island (Fig. 3) gross densities of 963 and 846 per aere were recorded, while the densities of population for the Yau Ma Tei and Mongkok districts of Kowloon were 568 and 545 per acre.
** 2011, Patricia Schultz, “Hong Kong”, in 1,000 Places to See Before You Die‎, 2nd edition, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 489, column 2:This doesn’t detract from the fun of bargaining at the variety of Hong Kong’s night markets (those who don’t like to haggle should stay away) that often thrum with shoppers till midnight. The best in town are the Ladies’ Market, for inexpensive women’s clothing, bags, and accessories, and the Temple Street Night Market, for an astonishing selection of everything from clothes and CDs to luggage and shoes—even fortune tellers—at the Yau Ma Tei end of the street.
** 2017 July 1, Will Hide, “Hong Kong: hip hotels and gourmet food”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 October 2022, China:On the other hand, boutique newcomers such as the Upper House, Kerry, Pottinger and Stage are shaking things up. I stayed at the Stage, near Nathan Road in bustling Yau Ma Tei, and — once I was over the initial shock that it sits next to a motorway flyover — fell for its aesthetically sleek charms and artsy vibe.
** 2020 September 6, “Hong Kong police arrest 289 at protests over election delay”, in The Washington Post, Associated Press‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Asia & Pacific‎:Police said that 289 people had been arrested, mostly for unlawful assembly. One woman was arrested in the Kowloon district of Yau Ma Tei on charges of assault and spreading pro-independence slogans, the police department said on its Facebook page. It said such slogans are illegal under a newly enacted national security law.
** 2021 January 26, Vivian Wang, Tiffany May, “Hong Kong’s First Covid-19 Lockdown Exposes Deep-Rooted Inequality”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-26‎:Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, said on Tuesday that the lockdown had been a success and added that more could be forthcoming; officials announced one in nearby Yau Ma Tei soon after.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yau Ma Tei.

#### Synonyms

* (abbreviation) YMT

#### Derived terms

* Yau Tsim, Yau Tsim Mong

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Chan Yeung Kwong (1955) Everybody's Cantonese‎, Fourth edition, Kowloon: Chung Yuen Printing Press, →OCLC, page 235: “Kowloon Districts […] Yaumati 油麻地 Yāu mā têi”

### Further reading

* Yau Ma Tei, Yaumatei, Yaumati, Yau Ma Ti at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.